Nicole Cooley
Encyclopedia
Nicole Ruth Cooley is an American poet
. Her most recent poetry collection is Breach (Louisiana State University Press, 2009). Her work has appeared in Poetry, Field, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, The Paris Review, PEN America
, The Missouri Review, The Nation, and Pedagogy. She is co-editing, with Pamela Stone, the “Mother” issue of Women’s Studies Quarterly.
She grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana
. She graduated from Brown University
and The Iowa Writers' Workshop
, and got her Ph.D. from Emory University
. Nicole Cooley has taught at Bucknell University
. She is currently a professor at Queens College, City University of New York
, where she directs the M.F.A. program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation.
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
. Her most recent poetry collection is Breach (Louisiana State University Press, 2009). Her work has appeared in Poetry, Field, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, The Paris Review, PEN America
PEN America
PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers is a semi-annual literary journal that publishes fiction, poetry, conversation, criticism, and memoir. It is published by PEN American Center in New York City...
, The Missouri Review, The Nation, and Pedagogy. She is co-editing, with Pamela Stone, the “Mother” issue of Women’s Studies Quarterly.
She grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. The New Orleans metropolitan area has a population of 1,235,650 as of 2009, the 46th largest in the USA. The New Orleans – Metairie – Bogalusa combined statistical area has a population...
. She graduated from Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
and The Iowa Writers' Workshop
Iowa Writers' Workshop
The Program in Creative Writing, more commonly known as the Iowa Writers' Workshop, at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, is a highly regarded graduate-level creative writing program in the United States...
, and got her Ph.D. from Emory University
Emory University
Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by a small group of Methodists and was named in honor of...
. Nicole Cooley has taught at Bucknell University
Bucknell University
Bucknell University is a private liberal arts university located alongside the West Branch Susquehanna River in the rolling countryside of Central Pennsylvania in the town of Lewisburg, 30 miles southeast of Williamsport and 60 miles north of Harrisburg. The university consists of the College of...
. She is currently a professor at Queens College, City University of New York
Queens College, City University of New York
Queens College, located in Flushing, Queens, New York City, is one of the senior colleges of the City University of New York. It is also the fifth oldest of the City University's twenty-three institutions of higher learning. The college's seventy seven acre campus is located in the heart of the...
, where she directs the M.F.A. program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation.
Awards
- 1994 "Discovery"/The Nation Award for her poetry
- 1995 Walt Whitman Award chosen by Cynthia MacdonaldCynthia Macdonald-Life:She was educated at Bennington College, Mannes College of Music, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, and the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, where she was certified as a psychoanalyst in 1986. Originally Macdonald intended to make a...
- 1996 she received a fiction grant from the National Endowment for the ArtsNational Endowment for the ArtsThe National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
- 2006 Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson AwardWriter Magazine/Emily Dickinson AwardThe Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award is given once a year to a member of the Poetry Society of America "to honor the memory and poetry of Emily Dickinson, for a poem inspired by Dickinson though not necessarily in her style." The winner receives a $250 prize.-Winners:*2010: Marlene Rosen Fine,...
Published works
External links
- "Author's website"
- http://www.pw.org/content/qampa_nicole_cooley_and_new_mfa"Q&A: Nicole Cooley and the New MFA", Kevin Larimer, Poets & WritersPoets & WritersPoets & Writers, Inc. is one of the largest nonprofit literary organization in the United States serving poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers...
, November/December 2007] - "PODCAST: Nicole Cooley reading as the 10th Florie Gale Arons Poet" 10,06,2008, Newcomb College